Moblin Compliance

Moblin Compliance is a program to improve application compatibility across distributions, by aligning the libraries and library versions that OSVs include in their distributions. When developing an application, you are encouraged to use the libraries and versions that are included in the pre-built development images. Doing so, will make sure that your application will run with minimal changes on all Moblin compliant distributions.

The compliance program is currently focused on the netbook. MID and IVI addendum will be added in the next few months.

Specification (v1.9.0)

Released Sep 22, 2009
Moblin v2 Compliance Specification v1.9.0 (pdf, 540KB)
Includes both OSV and ISV requirements.

ISV Application Checker

• Last updated: Sep. 23, 2009
• Specification supported: v1.9.0
• Size: ~1MB
• Tutorials: ISV Compliance Tutorial. WebEx video.
• Details:
  Includes Moblin App Checker (moblinappchk)
  ISV tests include: private library check, desktop test, and package install/uninstall
  tar xvzf moblin-app-checker-local-2.0.0.11-1.i486.tar.gz
cd moblin-app-checker
bin/app-checker-start.pl
  (A web interfaces is started.  Click on the tip icons for help)
  More details about the Moblin Applicaiton Checker program can be found here

OSV Distribution Checker

• Last updated: Oct. 1, 2009
• Specification supported: v1.9.0
• Size: ~400KB
• Tutorials: